Can you report a coworker for bringing alcohol-infused food to work?
Bringing alcohol-infused desserts to work violates handbook policy and creates a serious issue for employees in sober living. Colleagues fear supervisors will dismiss the complaint as an overreaction, while union leadership may treat the situation as an outrage, leaving staff unsure how to handle formal disciplinary action.
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Can you report a coworker for bringing alcohol-infused food to work?
- 1telling the coworker to talk to the union repDid this help you?
- 2advising the coworker to keep quiet and accept the write-upDid this help you?
- 3staying out of the situation entirelyDid this help you?
- 4Putting the dessert away immediatelyDid this help you?
- 5Assuming best intentions and asking employees to clearly label food in the futureDid this help you?
- 6Treating the situation casually without issuing a formal write-upDid this help you?
- 7Accepting the disciplinary action as standard procedure and moving onDid this help you?
- 8Ignoring the warning letter and being more careful in the futureDid this help you?
- 9Treating communications from unknown contacts as zero trustDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Employee brought a VERY MUCH alcohol infused dessert to the workplace and by the time I took a bite, it was 3/4 gone!”source ↗
“Anyways, that conversation should be a good time 😅 but genuinely, I feel upset about this as we have several employees that have been vocal about their sober living due to several different reasons, but HELLO it’s a clear violation of our handbook policy.”source ↗
“What is even more upsetting is that I do feel like this warrants an immediate written write up, but I feel like supervisors might feel like I’m overreacting.”source ↗
“I don’t bake so I wouldn’t know how that would work, which I can look into, but what I can say is that it was overwhelmingly strong even with the first bite, and my fear is, will this open the door for other alcohol infused food/desserts? Am I overreacting?”source ↗
“Recently, I was approached through LinkedIn by someone who appeared to be in the same domain like me.”source ↗
“It turned out that malicious content was involved, and malware was actually executed on the laptop.”source ↗
“Then, about a month later, I received a formal "Warning Letter for Negligence."”source ↗
“What bothers me is the proportionality.”source ↗
“I've been feeling quite demoralized by this. I feel that management doesn't value me as a employee.”source ↗
“Here’s the issue, I told him that’s insane and he should talk to the union rep to get the write up off his record but come to find out the union rep was the one that was most upset about this question.”source ↗
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